Steel Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 72: Staff Meeting (1)

(Yesterday’s three shifts were completed, this is a new day)

Xiong Wenbin was soon officially promoted to Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee and concurrently the Director of the Municipal Party Committee Office. The former Director of the Municipal Party Committee Office followed Wu Haifeng to serve in the National People’s Congress.

When Tan Qiping got off the car, he didn’t mean to act rashly. Except for Xiong Wenbin, during this period of Donghua’s other personnel transfers, he rarely mixed his personal opinions.

It seems that everything is running according to the established order, but it also quelled the rumors of a “big earthquake” in the Donghua meeting after Tan Qiping took office.

As for Zhou Ming’s promotion to Deputy Director of the Office of the Planning Commission, it was not a big deal in Donghua at all.

Yang Haipeng’s Penghai Trade also officially settled in Meixi Town, and the loan was also successfully processed.

The production of the steel mill has increased significantly in October, but the actual output is only slightly more than 4,000 tons, and the monthly output value is about 11 million. Even if non-stop production can be successfully achieved in the future, in order to allow the grassroots to have an adaptation period, Shen Huai will keep the monthly output value below 20 million.

After deducting the previous investment in office space, storage yard, transportation vehicles, and personnel recruitment, Penghai Trading still has about 4 million yuan in funds for flexible activities, which is enough to cover 20% of the steel plant (the cargo turnover rate is faster). If so, the ratio will be higher), and is naturally qualified to be the core distributor of Meixi Iron and Steel Plant.

And the marketing department of the steel mill, under the supervision of Shen Huai, has not been able to live in peace during this period of time. It seems to be putting on the shelves for chasing ducks. Together with Penghai Trading and other distributors, they are working hard to sell the steel mill rebar and other products to the market. The channels for building materials market in Donghua City and surrounding counties and districts have been opened up.

When Shen Huai took office, he announced that he would hold an all-staff meeting, which was delayed until the end of November.

Before that, Shen Huai had almost completely reorganized the management of the steel mill.

Including Guo Quan, there were four deputy factory managers who kicked out Shen Huai, and only the deputy factory manager Wang Kangsheng stayed.

Wang Kangsheng was originally the director of Meixi Iron and Steel Plant before the large-scale expansion of production. He was not highly educated. He was an apprentice in a steel plant. The factory went steadily, and it also accumulated the initial industrial foundation for Meixi Town.

With the support of the city and county, the steel mill expanded its production on a large scale in the late 1980s. Du Jian, secretary of the town party committee, concurrently served as the secretary of the steel mill and its party branch, and fully grasped the construction of the new production line and the power of the steel mill. Also responsible for the original production department.

The steel mill almost lost everything on the newly introduced electric furnace steel production line, but with the support of Wang Kangsheng, the old production department can still maintain some profits, which shows that he has a certain level of management and technology.

Wang Kangsheng is also very prestigious among the old employees before the expansion. The old employees of the steel factory before the expansion have no senior technical talents. After all, the old factory is a simple process with high energy consumption and heavy pollution, but qualified technicians are trained backwards. A lot of money has been made, which can be regarded as a foundation for Meixi Iron and Steel Plant.

In addition, Qian Wenhui was promoted to the deputy director in charge of the finance and purchasing department, and Wang Kangsheng became the only two remaining deputy directors after the management reorganization.

Of course, Xu Xiting served as the chief engineer, and his status was equivalent to that of the deputy director.

In the steel mill, Shen Huai still adopts the factory director system on the surface, but when it comes to the setting of the management department and the adjustment of functional requirements, Shen Huai still learns from the advanced management of large-scale enterprises abroad and conducts a thorough reorganization.

Under the chief engineer, the chief engineer’s office was established, and the staff training department and the quality management department were all included in the chief engineer’s office.

Shen Huai divided the production department into the first, second and public works departments. Deputy director Wang Kangsheng also served as the director of the first production department. The production lines retained by the old factory were all included in the first production department.

Xu Wendao was appointed as the Minister of Public Works, and Pan Cheng was appointed as the Minister of the Second Production Department.

The factory director’s office was set up, and the special assistant system was retained, and the establishment was placed in the factory director’s office. At the same time, Shen Huai centralized the authority of bulk raw material procurement, the selection power of first-level distributors, and new projects in the factory director’s office. Zhao Dong served as the director of the factory director’s office, and also served as the minister of safety and environmental protection.

In addition, marketing department, storage and transportation department and other departments are also established.

Excellent workers selected by Hu Zhigang and other steel mills, as well as technical management personnel excavated from the municipal steel mills, all called Shen Huai to fill in various management positions.

For more than a month, the training of employees has been going on continuously, and the average training time has reached 100 hours. This was something that ordinary workers could not imagine before Shen Huai took office.

Front-line workers are very involved in training and production rectification. The team’s pre-work and post-work summary meetings have been forcibly implemented by Shen Huai.

Under the pressure of an iron fist, it is normal for dissatisfaction to breed, and many employees cannot adapt to such strict management. In just over a month, nearly 30 ordinary employees have left the steel mill one after another to find other jobs.

By mid-November, Shen Huai had been in office for one month, and it was also the first month he paid wages after he arrived at the steel mill.

The basic salary of front-line workers has generally risen to more than 400 yuan; most of the employees who passed the assessment also received overtime wages of more than 200 yuan.

In addition to repayment of the owed wages before, the most ordinary employees can get 1,200 yuan or more in one time in mid-November.

In 1993, in Donghua City, where the per capita annual income was only about 34,500 yuan, and its economic development lags far behind other coastal cities, this is enough to boost the morale of most employees.

Meixi Iron and Steel Plant is a town-owned enterprise. The workers’ meeting, He Qingshe, Guo Quan and other town leaders were also invited to attend. Du Jian, secretary of the town party committee, had no face to enter the gate of the steel plant.

He Qingshe knew that Shen Huai ruled the factory with an iron fist, and many people were in pain.

He can know that these high-pressure policies will improve the appearance of the steel mill, but in fact he does not have much expectations.

When Chen Bing was the mayor of Xiapu County, he was extremely dissatisfied with the current situation of the steel mill. He approached He Qingshe and asked him if he would like to take over the Meixi Iron and Steel Plant. He Qingshe backed away at that time.

He Qingshe knew that the steel mill was too chaotic and the relationships involved were complicated, which he could not handle. In his opinion, no matter how capable Shen Huai is, what step can he achieve in just 40 days?

Due to the affiliation in the county, Shen Huai almost monopolized the power of the steel mill. In fact, no one in the town dared to interfere with his rectification of the steel mill, and He Qingshe had not walked into the steel mill in the past month or so.

After a lapse of forty days, I walked into the steel mill again.

At first glance, the building is still there, the furnace is still the same furnace, and the steel corridor of the electric furnace steel workshop is still half-hanging in the air, but if you look at it in detail, you can really see the reborn changes.

Before the meeting, from the office area to the production plant, you could hardly see a dangling employee wandering outside. The factory area is open and tidy, the weeds in the corners have been removed, the roads in the factory area are smooth, there are no obstacles, and there is no obvious oil stains and cigarette butts on the ground.

Those exposed facilities were all rusted at first, but now they are all painted with anti-rust paint, and various brand-new signs and warnings are hung on the pipe gallery and column frame.

Workers’ bicycle sheds are neatly lined up on the west side of the office building.

I came here today to attend the staff meeting as non-voting delegates, and I didn’t arrange to visit the workshop, but the impression of entering the factory gate for just a few minutes is shocking enough.

He Qingshe looked at the other deputy mayors, and could see the confusion in their eyes, maybe they were wondering, is this still the original Meixi Iron and Steel Plant? The difference is too great!

At this time, Shen Huai walked out of the office with Wang Kangsheng and Qian Wenhui to greet He Qingshe and other town cadres.

There was a deputy mayor who couldn’t hold back his surprise and said with admiration, “I don’t know, I thought it was a foreign-funded enterprise…”

“Secretary Shen once studied in France. After the reorganization of the steel mill called Secretary Shen, it has the style of a foreign-funded enterprise. It is normal to say it.” Guo Quan answered from the side.

Guo Quan was originally the deputy director of the steel mill. He was kicked out of the steel mill. He was also re-used by Shen Huai. He was involved in the asset and financial cleanup of the steel mill. Therefore, the cadres in the town were also responsible for this part of the steel mill. Changes over time are best understood.

Guo Quan’s rumors in the steel mill are much better than others, so there will be no embarrassment when he comes back.

“I heard that after returning from overseas students, they go to work in foreign-funded enterprises, and their salary is less than 200,000 to 300,000 yuan. They are embarrassed to say hello to people. I used to think, what kind of work can be worth this money? Now, Secretary Shen really called us. I’ve known you for a long time…”

Some rumors are easy to blow in government agencies. He Qingshe can guess from some subtleties that Shen Huai’s backstage is the secretary of the new city party committee; other people in the town, naturally, can see these subtleties.

Therefore, Shen Huai didn’t get involved in the town’s affairs very much, so they united closely with He Qingshe and stayed far away from Du Jian. At this time, I have the opportunity to express in front of Shen Huai~www.readwn.com~ of course, I am not stingy with praise.

Shen Huai just smiled and asked everyone to enter the conference room to rest for a while, and then went to the cafeteria to attend the staff meeting.

At the staff meeting, He Qingshe and others sat in the front row of the audience.

On the rostrum, starting from Wang Kangsheng, management personnel such as Xu Xiting, Qian Wenhui, Zhao Dong, Xu Wendao, Pan Cheng, Hu Zhigang, Shao Zheng, etc. all stood up one by one and gave induction speeches to the employees below the stage.

Wang Kangsheng, Xu Xiting, Qian Wenhui, Zhao Dong and others all performed quite well, and they mainly benefited from the nearly 40 days of employee training before.

Staff training can stand on the stage to give lectures. At this time, it is relatively more calm to give induction speeches to the same group of people.

During this period of training and production rectification, not to mention Wang Kangsheng, Xu Xiting, and Qian Wenhui who were powerful people in the steel mill, such as Zhao Dong, Xu Wendao, and Pan Cheng who jumped out of the city steel mill, also called Ordinary workers accepted.

The so-called “fighting in the ring” did not appear, but He Qingshe and others were not disappointed, on the contrary, they felt a pressure.

Not to mention professionals like Zhao Dong, Xu Wendao, and Pan Cheng. Young people like Hu Zhigang, who were dug up from grassroots employees by the name of Shen Huai, used to give the town the impression that they were unruly and stunned.

At this time, seeing them on stage, showing their professional standards and confidence in dealing with occasions that were completely different from their previous impressions, really shocked them.

At the same time, I thought that if Shen Huai replaced Du Jian as the party secretary and moved the steel factory to the town, then they belonged to the group of people who were to be eliminated. Thinking of this, some people’s hairs suddenly stood up, and their foreheads couldn’t help sweating.

They realized that they were not as good as Hu Zhigang and others!